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Re: icon-title-format vs. frame-title-format (Bug#61496)
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tomas |
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Re: icon-title-format vs. frame-title-format (Bug#61496) |
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Fri, 5 May 2023 09:28:46 +0200 |
On Fri, May 05, 2023 at 08:33:14AM +0300, Eli Zaretskii wrote:
> > Date: Fri, 5 May 2023 06:44:45 +0200
> > From: <tomas@tuxteam.de>
> >
> > > > ``minimize'' is not modern terminology. It is simply terminology used
> > > > by proprietary window systems.
> > >
> > > KDE and AwesomeWM (just to mention the window managers I have installed
> > > on this machine) are not proprietary. AFAIK Gnome also uses "minimize"
> > > on its user-oriented documentation, so does Xfce and LXQt.
> >
> > Po Lu is still right. The question is whether to accept Microsoft's
> > intellectual hegemony here (as the GNU/Linux desktop ennvironments
> > have done, too lightly for my personal taste) or not.
> >
> > Tough question. I clearly side with Po Lu's standpoint here, but can
> > understand that there are others.
>
> There's no "standpoint" here. Our documentation must be easily
> interpreted by today's users, and so boycotting terminology we don't
> like is silly and futile. We will be shooting ourselves in the foot.
I think nobody's proposing "boycotting" anything. Helping people to
find things with whichever terms they come in, is, I guess, consensus.
Cheers
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- Re: icon-title-format vs. frame-title-format (Bug#61496), (continued)
- Re: icon-title-format vs. frame-title-format (Bug#61496), Óscar Fuentes, 2023/05/04
- Re: icon-title-format vs. frame-title-format (Bug#61496), Eli Zaretskii, 2023/05/04
- Re: icon-title-format vs. frame-title-format (Bug#61496), Óscar Fuentes, 2023/05/04
- Re: icon-title-format vs. frame-title-format (Bug#61496), Eli Zaretskii, 2023/05/04
- Re: icon-title-format vs. frame-title-format (Bug#61496), Po Lu, 2023/05/04
- Re: icon-title-format vs. frame-title-format (Bug#61496), Óscar Fuentes, 2023/05/05
- Re: icon-title-format vs. frame-title-format (Bug#61496), tomas, 2023/05/05
- Re: icon-title-format vs. frame-title-format (Bug#61496), Eli Zaretskii, 2023/05/05
- Re: icon-title-format vs. frame-title-format (Bug#61496),
tomas <=
- Re: icon-title-format vs. frame-title-format (Bug#61496), Eli Zaretskii, 2023/05/05
- Re: icon-title-format vs. frame-title-format (Bug#61496), Po Lu, 2023/05/05
- Re: icon-title-format vs. frame-title-format (Bug#61496), Eli Zaretskii, 2023/05/05
Re: icon-title-format vs. frame-title-format (Bug#61496), Tobias Bading, 2023/05/05